This legislation by the MAGAt cabal on the Supreme Court is so awful it is hard to believe any honest court could issue such a decision. But, of course, the U.S. Supreme Court is not an honest court it is a kind of unelected super-legislature. Most Americans don’t seem to realize that this decision is based on bogus evidence presented by a woman who, at the time, didn’t even have a wedding web service, she just thought it might be a good idea. So she was not actually hurt, which in an honest court, would be a requirement to even hear her case. When you read this decision it is clear that this whole case was deliberately constructed to give the MAGAt cabal a way to rule against LGBTQ folk. But the implications are far broader than that as we are going to see in the months to come. Frankly, I don’t understand why there are not millions of people out in the streets demonstrating against the pseudo-supreme court we now have.
Lorie Smith speaks to reporters outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in December 2022. Credit: Anna Moneymaker / Getty
Businesses can refuse to serve same-sex couples if doing so would violate the owners’ religious beliefs, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
Why it matters: The court has significantly expanded LGBTQ rights over the past several years, but is now carving out some exceptions.
Driving the news: The case concerns Lorie Smith, a Colorado web designer who wanted to create and sell wedding websites, but not to same-sex couples.
Colorado’s civil rights law prohibited her, or any business that serves the general public, from turning away customers because of their sexual orientation. She said complying with that law would force her to espouse views she does not agree with.
“The artwork that I create is speech,” Smith told Colorado Public Radio in December, adding that, “those messages must be consistent with my convictions.”
The big picture: The conservative-majority Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Smith, saying she has a First Amendment right to refuse to design custom wedding websites […]
I will never darken the doors of such a business! Wondering if this applies to such venues as government offices like the DMV or Drs./ hospitals, etc?